Do you think that's why the US military have been the quietest they've been in decades under his presidency?
Do they award Nobel Peace prizes to leaders of countries for
not invading and killing 100s thousands ?
Actually from a Norwegian perspective ..
Asked whether he thought the US President had any real chance of being awarded the prize in Norway, Tybring-Gjedde claimed that the candidate's personality was "not important".
"It's not personality that decides whether someone wins the prize, but what the person has really accomplished to make peace in the world," he said.
Israel and the UAE announced the launch of political and commercial ties last month, with senior advisers to Trump including his son-in-law Jared Kushner close to the deal. The two countries are scheduled to sign a normalisation agreement at the White House next week.
That comes as the United States is in the midst of widespread social unrest, with nationwide protests against police brutality.
These have notably, but not solely been in response to the killing by a police officer of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, and later after police shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, in the back seven times, leaving him paralysed.
Trump has not acted as peace broker domestically, with Democrats
accusing him of trying to inflame racial tensions and incite violence to benefit his campaign after he praised supporters who clashed with protesters in Portland, Oregon. He has denounced protesters as “thugs” while defending aggressive police actions.
Trump’s popularity in Norway is perhaps better gauged by other stories than his latest Nobel nomination.
In 2018, Trump's invitation to Norwegians to immigrate to the United States, while railing against entrants from "shithole" countries,
received a glacial reception in the Nordic nation.